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bread n OED ~ sb1 6 b obs (1651-1793), DAE n 1 a obs
(1656-1851), EDD sb1 2 (Nfld: 1894) for sense 1; for combs. in sense 3:
OED sb1 9 ~ bag (1864), DAE ~ bag (1828-1866), OED 10
-barge (1840).
1 Thick, coarse biscuit, baked without salt
and kiln-dried; sea-biscuit; HARD BREAD. Cp CAKE.
[1677] 1976 HEAD
101 Provisions imported this yeare only in St John's Harbr. Bread (lb) 50,000 [from]
England. [1742] ibid 102 Cargoes imported by 'Ships Entred in the Harbour of St John's.
Bread (lb) 452,000 [from) England.' 1842 JUKES i, 17 Returning to Torbay we got a dinner
of tea, eggs, and bread and butter, the latter being common ship's biscuit and salt
butter. 1866 WILSON 208 Bread always means sea-biscuit. [1876] 1877 TUCKER 47 Fresh
butter in many cases is almost equally scarce, and 'bread' means 'biscuit' only (there is
a tub of them always standing in my dining-room). 1925 Dial Notes v, 326 ~ Hard
bread. Bread when soft is called 'loaf.' 1967 READER 8 [They] would bring back [from St
John's] the supplies they needed for the winter. This would be possibly 20 or 30 barrels
of flour, so many bags of bread (hard tack), a puncheon of molasses, tea, sugar, beans,
etc.
2 Phr take bread for the road: to carry bread
in one's pocket to ward off the fairies; cp COMPANY BREAD.
P
108-70 Going out at night, or going into the woods, one took a bit of bread for the road,
so the fairies wouldn't 'take' one.
3 In designations of
containers or storage places for sea-biscuit: ~ bag; ~ barge; ~ box; loft; ~ noggin
[see NOGGIN]; ~ sack.
[1772] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 208
Leaving all my baggage except my bread-bag, we returned to Mr Hewet's, and gave up all
farlher thoughts of prosecuting our intended journey. T 172/4-65 Now our bread start to
get soaked in a bread bag. 1930 BARNES 224 I filled out a pint mug of cocoa and hauled
out what we call a bread barge and there was a pan of butter in the barge. [1786] 1792
CARTWRIGHT iii, 135 Tilsed shot a grouse, and made a bread-box. T 31/2-.64 Away they
goes, the crowd what was aboard the steamer, with punts, bread-boxes, kettles and
everything now they could muscle up for 'em to eat, 'cause they were starvin' to death,
see. 1979 TIZZARD 277 The bread box was also well packed for the trips out in the boat.
[1870] 1973 KELLY 24 The agent had cleared away the sacks of biscuit in the bread loft. C
75-132 Bread noggin. A lunch box used while fishing. T 43/7-64 Well, that's what would
usually be used, or an oat sack. A oat sack is a bit coarser than a bread sack.
4 Comb bread soda: baking soda or sodium bicarbonate
used in making soft bread or 'loaf.'
T 92/3-64 You just put that
in the flour an' you'd put molasses in an' then you have bread soda for dark
ones—'twas cream o' tartar an' bread soda in them days. 1975 BUTLER 80 [They'd get]
margarine in tubs called firkins, bread soda and cream of tartar.
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